M. H. HOLCROFT'S WRITINGS
Sir,-Since we are unable to gather around .a table and continue this discussion in the way that all your correspondents, I am sure, would like to do, one general observation may serve for my reply.’The final test of any theory is in practice. To my mind, M. H. Holcroft’s mysticism has its counterpart in a certain aloofness from his fellowcountrymen, from which he sees them generally as raw fellows much given to drink. and gambling. Two recent contributors to The Listener have drawn from life, and many a reader will be as delighted as the author with the bushman’s wife of Anton Vogt’s storyrough and ready, yet able to "manage" an accident as capably as she manages her brood of men and children; and with the farmers, garage men, housewives, craftsmen, and crusaders for many causes, encountered by "Sundowner." As the title of Alan Marshall’s fine little tale of Australia has quoted, "These Are My People." ;
ELSIE
LOCKE
(Christchurch).
(This correspondence is now closed,-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 5
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168M. H. HOLCROFT'S WRITINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 402, 7 March 1947, Page 5
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